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Analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan through historical and international comparison, in an effort to explore its current route and future prospects. Positing ""livelihood security systems"" rather than ""welfare states"" or ""welfare regimes"" as the object of comparative investigation the author builds on the concept of ""social exclusion"".

Comparisons of the UK, US, Germany and Japan reveal the ways in which gender transforms conventional understandings of the knowledge-based economy. This volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment